On Friday, March 27, during a visit to the cosmodrome in Baikonur, caused by the launch of the next manned spacecraft “Soyuz” with a unique ISS crew, whose members will stay on the space station for about a year, the head of NASA, Charles Bolden made quite unexpected in light of the current relations between Russia and US statement on further cooperation with the Russian Space Agency.
In particular, Charles Bolden said that Roscosmos and NASA started to develop a joint “global roadmap for space exploration, the endpoint that will be manned mission to Mars.” The head of NASA admitted that he had already talked about it with Igor Komarov, who heads the Federal Space Agency, in an attempt to “decide on the time frame of the project and allocate funding and efforts to avoid duplication of each other».
If we go back to the implementation of joint projects with the Russian Space Agency, the Charles Bolden very pleased with the fact that “Roskosmos has expressed a desire to continue the full sharing of the International Space Station until 2024″. The head of NASA did not give specific consent to the proposal of Igor Komarov on the joint construction of a new space station.
The position of the Charles Bolden on US-Russian cooperation in space and shared in Washington. At the very least, a spokesman for NASA Weaver said Saturday that on Thu “The United States welcomes Russia’s intention to develop an active international cooperation in the field of space exploration.”
In this case, Weaver drew attention to the fact that: “Today, our focus remains fully focused on the use of current scientific orbital laboratory and research that will be made in the course of the just beginning of the space mission astronaut Scott Kelly. It will last for a year and help us to develop a more long-term manned missions in space. ”
In addition, the head of NASA said that the US has renewed interest in the study of the moon, which the Americans plan to “meet” at the expense of private companies already operates flights to the ISS. According to Bolden, NASA is going to attract these companies to implement the project “to capture the change in space and motion of the asteroid,” which is to be delivered to the lunar orbit. In exchange for the financing of the project by private firms, the head of NASA, may be authorized for research and extraction of minerals from the “captured” in space asteroid.
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